Ruby on Rails was always translated to me as "take the slowest scripting language in existence and build a web app framework around it". I don't know how on earth anyone would come up with that idea. (Although I'm not really up-to-date about Ruby, things might be better than they were a few years ago... :))

I've been a Microsoft developer for decades now. I weaned myself on various flavors of home computer Microsoft Basic, and I got my first paid programming gigs in Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Visual Basic. I have seen the future of programming, my friends, and it is terrible...